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Microsoft Copilot is an AI assistant for various M365 applications that makes your work a lot easier. In this blog article, we take a closer look at Microsoft Copilot for Teams. Find out how you can save time and work more efficiently with this evolution from Microsoft.
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To use Copilot in Microsoft Teams and other Microsoft applications, you will need a licence. We are happy to help you with this. Contact us for more information.
Microsoft Copilot for Teams helps you summarise meetings, retrieve action points, identify unanswered questions, identify different perspectives per topic and ask effective questions. You can even ask Copilot to give you an answer in the form of a table, which you can copy and share.
To use Copilot in a Teams meeting or call, you need to record or transcribe it. Processing the transcript of the meeting generates answers to prompts such as:
Microsoft Copilot also works great for getting an overview of what was discussed in a meeting you were unable to attend or for which you were late. See how that works below.
Follow a meeting you could not attend and get a summary.
Or summary what has been discussed so far, when you are late.
Is your SME using Teams chats and channels a lot and is it sometimes difficult to keep up and filter the most important action points for yourself? Microsoft Copilot offers the solution for this. With this AI assistant, you quickly stay up to date by quickly viewing key points, action items and decisions without scrolling through long threads, simply by asking Copilot what the highlights of the day are.
Open Copilot in Teams and select one of the suggested prompts or ask a question yourself, such as ‘Summarise what I missed’. The same applies to conversations in Teams channels. You can easily get a summary of these, see what decisions were made and filter the most important action points.
Have a look here on how it works here.
Be clear and comprehensive when asking Copilot to perform an action: the more details you give, the better the results. You can improve results by refining the instructions. Ask for a summary of the things you need to track, including files, messages and people. Copilot can also help you find and use information hidden in documents or lost in conversations, such as when the next meeting is with a person or team you have yet to schedule. Together with Copilot, you can create content with all this, such as a summary or action list of a meeting or a presentation
The prompts you can use for this are:
We are convinced of the usefulness of Microsoft Copilot and would be happy to tell you more about it in a personal meeting. Contact us to schedule a demo.